Joe Tessitore, broadcaster for EA Sports Fight Night Champion and ESPN Friday Night Fights, never uses the term 'haymaker' on the air.

If you’re squeamish, you don’t want Joe Tessitore’s job. The blow-by-blow broadcaster for ESPN Friday Night Fights said he has been covered in so much blood that his dry cleaner suspected he was a hit man.

“I’ve seen a guy’s ear almost fall off; I’m not exaggerating that one bit,” said Tessitore, sitting ringside recently before a Friday Night Fights broadcast at Wide World of Sports. “… That’s the one thing about boxing: If you are good at this production, as a producer in the truck or as a broadcaster, you can do anything in sports broadcasting.”

Tessitore can also ad-lib for hours while recording lines for a video game franchise. He may be best known as the ringside announcer for the EA Sports Fight Night video game franchise. Tessitore said he and broadcast partner Teddy Atlas spend hours inside a Manhattan studio providing sound bites for EA Sports producers.

“A lot of what Teddy and I do for the video game is unscripted,” Tessitore said. “They will just throw out ‘Mike Tyson is fighting Muhammad Ali, it’s late in the fight and Tyson needs a knockout to win. Go!’

“We go for an hour. We just dream up scenarios in our head.”

Enjoy these two clips from my recent interview with Tessitore, who will be calling tonight’s 10-round welterweight bout between Demetrius Hopkins and Brad Solomon on ESPN2 and ESPN3.

In this video clip, Tessitore talks about his work with Teddy Atlas on EA Sports Fight Night Champion. You’ll be interested to hear what he says about using the term ‘haymaker’. You’ll notice he never uses it on ESPN.

In this clip, Tessitore talks about all the blood, gore and mishaps he’s experienced at ringside. At the 1:10 mark, you’ll notice another ringside mishap that will go in my blooper reel one of these days.

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